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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%;">Cork’s Main Streets Collection</p>
<br /><br /><span><span></span></span>
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Cork city's North and South main Streets.
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2014
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Interviewees: Erin O'Brien; Rosarii Comber; John O'Leary; Liam Ohiugin; Tom Spalding; Noreen Hanover; Michael Creedon; Patrick Leader;
Interviewers: Aisling Byron; Tara Arpaia; Dermot Casey; Stephen Dee; Margaret Steele; Mark Wilkins;
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<strong>Catalogue Numbers:</strong><br /><br /><a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/document/64" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CFP_SR00536_oleary_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/document/65" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CFP_SR00537_hanover_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/document/66" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CFP_SR00538_spalding_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/document/67" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CFP_SR00539_hUigin_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/document/68" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CFP_SR00543_obrien_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/document/69">CFP_SR00544_comber_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/document/70">CFP_SR00545_leader_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/document/71" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CFP_SR00546_creedon_2015</a>;
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Cork City's North and South Main Streets.
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Cork Folklore Project
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Cork Folklore Project Audio Archive
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Cork Folklore Project
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Cork Folklore Project
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English
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Audio
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8 .wav files
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This collection of eight interviews concentrates on Cork City’s historic spine, North and South Main Streets. These streets link the island of the city centre with the North and South Sides of the city. They form a shopping and business area, which has also served a residential purpose down through the years. Although our broader collection contains much description of and stories from the area, these interviews (carried out between January and March 2015 and totalling 4 hours 28 minutes in duration) focus specifically on the streets, their past and their future. Interviewees include residents of the streets and their environs and those who work and have worked there, and the interviews encompass memories of the area from the 1940s onwards, descriptions of change in the area, and reflection on the area’s future. Interviews were carried out with local residents, one of whom is a local historian, representatives of three multi-generational family businesses (Leader’s clothing, the North Gate Pharmacy and Bradley’s Off-licence), a South Main Street resident and city planner, a cityscape historian, and a promoter who was particularly active in organising events in the nightclub Sir Henry’s in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Take a stroll down these streets using the interactive website developed by Penny Johnston: <a href="http://corksmainstreets.corkfolklore.org/cms/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">corksmainstreets.corkfolklore.org</a>
Cork Civic Trust supported this interviewing project.
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Penny Johnston based a digital oral history mapping pilot project called ‘Cork’s Main Streets’ on the audio interviews from this collection in 2016, as part of her PhD research. The 2018 website and the map layer can be viewed at: <a href="http://corksmainstreets.corkfolklore.org/cms/">http://corksmainstreets.corkfolklore.org/cms/ </a><br /><br />Penny’s PhD dissertation can be accessed at: <a href="https://cora.ucc.ie/handle/10468/5469">https://cora.ucc.ie/handle/10468/5469</a>
<strong><br />Other Material Realating to Cork's Main Streets:</strong><strong></strong><br /><br /><a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/62">CFP_SR00448_hinchy_2012</a>: Interview of ex-Beamish Brewery (South Main Street) staff member Ed Hinchy.<br /><br /><a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/document/90">CFP_SR00532_davis_2014</a>: Interview with former manager of The Other Place Resource Centre (South Main Street), Clive Davis, conducted by Stephen Dee and Dermot Casey, as part of the LGBT Archive Collection <br /><br />CFP_SR00535_wilkins_2014: Mark Wilkins was interviewed by Aisling Byron on the music scene of Cork City in the 1980s and 1990s: the interview contains in-depth discussion of South Main Street music venue Sir Henry’s and of the South Main Street pub The Liberty.
Oral History
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Dermot Casey
Tara Walsh
Interviewee
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Rosarii Comber
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24 mins 21 secs
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12 (North Gate Chemist) North Main Street
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.wav
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The following is a short extract from the interview transcript, copyright of the Cork Folklore Project. If you wish to access further archival material please contact CFP, folklorearchive@gmail.com
RC: It is just the idea that I will go in in the mornings to Bradley’s to get my newspapers and Pat behind the counter will know my order and have it ready and we’ll have a bit of banter. Basically she’s the sunshine and I’m the rain person so we congratulate each other depending on the weather every morning. We can go into Molloy’s and Caroline knows the exact shoes my mother likes and doesn’t like. I’ve got the boys in Super Macs on Gold Star Competition. If they can remember what’s my order on Friday and Saturday they’ll get a Gold Star not to mix it up. I can go up to the cinema in two minutes.
TW: Less than two minutes.
RC: And Will knows my order, the Manager. It’s just the fact that everything is so convenient. I lived in Manchester while doing my degree. I had been in UCC. You know when you had a twenty minute break you might go into the library and do a bit of reading and in Manchester it would have taken you twenty minutes to go from your lecture to the library. It’s the idea that everything was so far away from each other. Having said that I always thought that Manchester was very like Cork. The idea that it thought it should be the capital city, not those upstarts down south in London. Even though it might not have fantastic features or architecture, it still had people and the people were very accommodating whereas in London, you know what it’s like in London.
TW: Like Patrick Street, generic.
RC: Yes.
DC: Yeah.
RC: You don’t make eye contact and you don’t talk whereas in Manchester you could nod at a person and there’d be no hassle. They wouldn’t be wondering were you trying to mug them or something so.
DC: There’s loads of Irish over there as well in Manchester.
RC: There is a strong community but, bizarrely enough, even though my landlady was Irish I never actually engaged with them. I was coming from having done four years in UCC to do the pharmacy degree in Manchester so I felt I was a little bit older than the average so I didn’t engage as much. I was there really to make sure I got the degree and came back with it. I did microbiology the first time and we came out in ’92. There was a mini recession so we were neither use nor ornament to anybody and so my Dad always liked the idea of an independent profession that you could just set up on your own and do your own thing. So he actually financed me to go and do pharmacy, which is what I wanted to do the first time but I just couldn’t get the marks. Back then there wasn’t the same concept of going away to do the study. You just went to wherever was local.
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Rosarii Comber: North Gate Chemist
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North Main Street, Cork
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Rosarii Comber is a pharmacist at North Gate Pharmacy, a business that has been in her family since 1964. She begins the interview discussing some of the history of the building – that families would have lived above the business and that at one stage there were even little houses out in the back garden in which families lived. All families on the premises would have shared a single small outhouse as well. Additionally, she mentions that they were able to look back at the deeds and ledgers pertaining to the premises and that it would have been a retail location going back into the 1880s. She recounts that there ‘always seems to have been strong women here’ and recounts a story of the first owner, in the 19th century, being a woman who divorced her husband, kept the business, and left him money in her will! Rosarii discusses the owner-occupier nature of North Main Street, mentioning three pharmacies in the area as well as Bradley’s and Leader’s. When discussing memories as a child, she mentions Kilgrew’s toy shop where she would have gotten pre-ordered comics (such as “Misty” for herself and “2000AD” or “Warlord” for her brother). She recalls being told off by her mother for speaking back to a ‘shawlie’ and some discussion of what a shawlie is ensues. She relates that the biggest negatives pertaining to North Main Street now are how quiet it is (she can no longer tell the time of day by the noise outside) and the recent problem of addicts frequenting the street. There is some discussion of the adaptability of North Main Street, that is has been through several recessions and booms, and what needs to occur in the future to maintain business on the street. Rosarii highlights that parking access is a big issue in City Centre, especially for the elderly who cannot easily take the bus or pay for a taxi, and also mentions that the shopping centres in Cork are drawing away a lot of business. Local businesses that are mentioned include Molloy’s, Supermacs, and Waffles.
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4 February 2015
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Interviewee: Rosarii Comber
Interviewers: Dermot Casey, Tara Walsh
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CFP_SR00544_comber_2015
Coverage
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Cork; Ireland; 1960s - 2000s;
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Cork Folklore Project
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English
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1.wav File
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Cork Folklore Project
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Cork Folklore Project Audio Archive
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<br /><a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/document/64" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CFP_SR00536_oleary_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/document/65" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CFP_SR00537_hanover_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/document/66" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CFP_SR00538_spalding_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/document/67" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CFP_SR00539_hUigin_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/document/68" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CFP_SR00543_obrien_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/document/69">CFP_SR00544_comber_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/document/70">CFP_SR00545_leader_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/document/71" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CFP_SR00546_creedon_2015</a>;
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<div class="element-text">Penny Johnston based a digital oral history mapping pilot project called ‘Cork’s Main Streets’ on the audio interviews from this collection in 2016, as part of her PhD research. The 2018 website and the map layer can be viewed at: <a href="http://corksmainstreets.corkfolklore.org/cms/">http://corksmainstreets.corkfolklore.org/cms/ </a><br /><br />Penny’s PhD dissertation can be accessed at: <a href="https://cora.ucc.ie/handle/10468/5469">https://cora.ucc.ie/handle/10468/5469</a></div>
<div class="element-text"><strong><br /></strong><strong>Other Material Relating to Cork's Main Streets:</strong><strong></strong><br /><br />CFP_SR00448_hinchy_2012: Interview of ex-Beamish Brewery (South Main Street) staff member Ed Hinchy.<br /><br /><a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/document/90">CFP_SR00532_davis_2014</a>: Interview with the former manager of The Other Place Resource Centre (South Main Street), Clive Davis, conducted by Stephen Dee and Dermot Casey, as part of the LGBT Archive Collection <br /><br />CFP_SR00535_wilkins_2014: Mark Wilkins was interviewed by Aisling Byron on the music scene of Cork City in the 1980s and 1990s: the interview contains an in-depth discussion of South Main Street music venue Sir Henry’s and of the South Main Street pub The Liberty.</div>
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Cork Folklore Project
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Sound
Bishopstown
Boots Chemist
Bradley’s Market
Coal Quay
Dunnes Stores
Emigration
Kildurry
Laneways
Leader’s
Manchester
Methodone
Needle Exchange
North Gate Chemist
North Main Street
Patrick Street
Recession
Rosarii Comber
Shandon
Shawlie
Shawls
Tenements
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<p>Grattan Street Stories: Memory of Place</p>
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Occupational Lore; Life History; Built Heritage; Health; Ireland; Cork; Middle Parish
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<p>This collection focuses on a building on Grattan Street which has served as a Quaker Meeting House, a public Dispensary and as the Grattan Street Health Centre. The project was a collaboration between the CFP and the Cork North Community Work Department, Cork Kerry Community Healthcare, Health Services Executive HSE. </p>
<p>The interviewees fall into two main groups: those who worked in the building and those who lived in the surrounding area and availed of the services provided in the building.</p>
<p>This project follows on from the collaboration with the HSE in the “<a href="https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/collections/show/10" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">HSE Orthopaedic Hospital Oral History Project (d'Orthopaedic)</a>”. There is a further connection between the two projects as many of the staff and services once provided in the Grattan Street Health Centre have now relocated to St. Mary's Health Campus (St Mary’s Primary Care Centre) Gurranabraher, the former site of the Orthopaedic Hospital. This topic of the relocation of services is also covered in some staff interviews. <br /><br />To date (October 2021) 13 interviews have been completed for the project.<br /><br />Interviewees discuss the Grattan Street building itself in terms of its historic significance, its benefits and drawbacks as a workplace. Broader themes related to or inspired by the building are also touched on including: personal relationship with the building, staff camaraderie, the problems with parking, memorable incidents at work, patient experiences and descriptions of the people and services for which the building catered.<br /><br />Healthcare professional interviewees detail their training, career progression and comparisons between Grattan Street and other workplaces. Their testimonies also provide a link with the community of patients they served giving further insight into attitudes to healthcare, diseases, vaccines, description of social conditions and the changes in medicine and technology in their working lives.<br /><br />Non-healthcare professional interviewees describe childhood experiences in or around Grattan Street (The Marsh or The Middle Parish), the social, cultural and economic conditions of the area, tenements, businesses, attitudes to and experiences of healthcare, vaccines, diseases, medicines and medical professionals as well as observed changes in these areas over time.<br /><br />Interviewees also reflect on the possible future uses of the Grattan Street building.<br /><br /><strong>Related Reference Sources</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Barrington, R.<em> (</em>1987) <em>Health, medicine and politics in Ireland, 1900–1970</em>. Dublin: Institute of Public Administration.</li>
<li><span>Butler D.M. (2004) <em>The Quaker meeting houses of Ireland</em></span>. Dublin : Irish Friends Historical Committee.</li>
<li><span>Byrne, J. (2004) <em>Byrne's dictionary of Irish local history.</em> Cork: Mercier Press.</span></li>
<li>Cooke, R. T. (1999) <em>My Home by the Lee</em>. Irish Millennium Publications: Cork.</li>
<li><span>Dempsey, P. J. & White, L. W. ‘Childers, Erskine Hamilton’. <em>Dictionary of Irish Biography</em> </span>[Accessed 18 October 2021]</li>
<li>Harrison, R.S. (1991) <em>Cork City Quakers 1655-1939: A Brief History</em>. Cork.</li>
<li>Houston, M. (2004). ‘Life before the GP’. <em>The</em> <em>Irish Times. </em>Available at : <<a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/life-before-the-gp-1.1158599">https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/life-before-the-gp-1.1158599</a> > [Accessed 18 October 2021]</li>
<li>Keohane, F. (2020) <em>The Buildings of Ireland Cork City and County</em>. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.</li>
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2019-2020
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<p>Interviewees: Edith O’Regan, 'Mary', Sean Higgisson, Aoife O’Brien, Eileen Kearney, Imelda Cunning, Jane Ward, Liam Ó hUigín, Joe Scanlan, Mary Mulcahy, Philomena Cassidy, Don Morrissy, Derek O’Connell</p>
<p>Interviewer: <a href="https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=2&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Kieran+Murphy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Kieran Murphy</a>, (<a href="https://corkfolklore.org/community-oral-history-outreach-officer/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CFP Community Oral History Outreach Officer</a>)</p>
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<p>Cork, Ireland 1940s-2020s; Waterford, Ireland; Dublin, Ireland; Limerick, Ireland;</p>
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<p><strong>Exhibition</strong></p>
<p>Artist Edith O’Regan-Cosgrave (also an interviewee for the project) created a visual artwork based around the Grattan Street Medical Centre building itself, as a workplace and health centre. The artwork incorporated direct quotations from the oral history interviews conducted for the project, and also included brief historical paragraphs about the building researched, written and edited by the <a href="https://corkfolklore.org/community-oral-history-outreach-officer/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CFP Community Oral History Outreach Officer</a> Kieran Murphy. This exhibition was launched on 6<sup>th</sup> February 2020 in “St Peter’s” on the North Main Street where a “Listening Event” was also held to mark the occasion.</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:10%;"><br /><br /><img src="http://corkfolklore.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Grattan-Poster-for-Email-286-by-400.jpg" alt="Grattan-Poster-for-Email-286-by-400.jpg" /><br /><br /></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:10%;"></p>
<p><strong>Presentation and Listening Event</strong></p>
<p>To coincide with the launch of the Grattan Street Stories Exhibtion on 6<sup>th</sup> February 2020 a listening event and presentation of the history of the Grattan Street Medical Centre building and description of the project was given by <a href="https://corkfolklore.org/community-oral-history-outreach-officer/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CFP Community Oral History Outreach Officer</a> Kieran Murphy.<br /><br /><img src="http://corkfolklore.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/427A7714-1.jpg" alt="427A7714-1.jpg" /></p>
<p><strong>Presentation</strong></p>
<p>In 2019 at the OHNI conference the <a href="https://corkfolklore.org/community-oral-history-outreach-officer/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CFP Community Oral History Outreach Officer</a> Kieran Murphy discussed social media and oral history which included audio excerpts from the Grattan Street Stories Project along with photographs of the building.</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:150%;"><img src="http://corkfolklore.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Kieran-OHNI-e1634041838937.jpg" alt="Kieran-OHNI-e1634041838937.jpg" /></p>
<p><strong>Audio Visual Presentation</strong></p>
<p>An audio-visual slideshow was produced featuring oral testimony from the Grattan Street Stories Project and combined with suitable images of Grattan Street and from Edith O’Regan-Cosgrave’s exhibition. This was created by <a href="https://corkfolklore.org/community-oral-history-outreach-officer/">CFP Community Oral History Outreach Officer</a> Kieran Murphy.<br /><br /></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:10%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></p>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnjEtQeOb3I&t=1s&ab_channel=CorkFolklore" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Audio Visual Presentation Available to listen and view here.</a>
<p><strong>Health and Vaccines Oral History Research<br /></strong><br />Many of the interviews conducted for the Grattan Street project formed an integral part of the testimonies and research for the innovative<br /><a href="https://corkfolklore.org/health/about" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">'Catching Stories'<span> </span>of infectious disease in Ireland </a>project funded by the Irish Research Council.<br /><br /><a href="https://corkfolklore.org/health/about" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><img src="http://corkfolklore.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Catching-Stories-Poster.jpg" alt="Catching-Stories-Poster.jpg" /></a></p>
<strong>Social Media</strong> <br /><br />Numerous suitable audio excerpts from the oral history interviews have been edited and shared on CFP's social media channels.<br /><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/corkfolklore/status/1139167201582288901" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://twitter.com/corkfolklore/status/1139167201582288901</a><br /><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/corkfolklore/status/1140909542240391168" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://twitter.com/corkfolklore/status/1140909542240391168</a><br /><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/corkfolklore/status/1141264486768238592" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://twitter.com/corkfolklore/status/1141264486768238592</a><br /><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/corkfolklore/status/1189872295923376133" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://twitter.com/corkfolklore/status/1189872295923376133</a><br /><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/corkfolklore/status/1228322700415860736" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://twitter.com/corkfolklore/status/1228322700415860736</a>
<strong>Orthopaedic Hospital</strong><br />Cork Folklore Project in collaboration with the HSE conducted an oral history project focussing on the Orthapaedic Hospital in Gurranabraher. <br /><br /><span>Many of the staff and services once provided at the Grattan Street Health Centre site were moved to St. Mary's Health Campus (St Mary’s Primary Care Centre) Gurranabraher, the former site of the Orthopaedic Hospital. </span><br /><br /><a href="https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/collections/show/10" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">HSE Orthopaedic Hospital Oral History Project (d'Orthopaedic)</a>
<strong>Swimming Article</strong><br /><br />Kieran Murphy and James Furey co-authored an article about<br /><a href="https://tripeanddrisheen.substack.com/p/swim-city?s=r" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Swimming in Cork</a> which appeared in the online magazine Tripe + Drisheen. This article features a number of interview extracts collected as part of the Grattan Street Stories Project.
<strong>Related Interviews<br /><br /></strong>CFP_SR00756_Quilligan_2019;<br />CFP_SR00758_Broderick_2019;<br />CFP_SR00670_OShea_2018;<strong><br /><br /></strong>
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Cork Folklore Project
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Cork Folklore Project Audio Archive
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Cork Folklore Project
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Cork Folklore Project
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English
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Audio
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16 .wav Files
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Jane Ward
Interviewer
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Kieran Murphy
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126 Minutes 10 Seconds
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St Mary’s Primary Health Care Centre Gurranabraher
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.wav
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24bit / 48kHz
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<p><strong>Growing Up in County Dublin </strong></p>
<p>Grew up in Balbriggan County Dublin, seaside town between Dublin and Drogheda. When growing up she was allowed to Drogheda to shop by herself but not to Dublin because Drogheda was considered a safer town. [Jane mentions that Drogheda is not considered safe at present this is an allusion to drug gang related violence in Drogheda which was in the news around the time of the interview.]</p>
<p>Also mentions Skerries as a seaside town in County Dublin. Went to school in Loreto Convent in Balbriggan at 4 and finished when 17 and refused the nuns’ offer to stay another year. Stayed in the same school for primary and secondary school, the benefit of which is having the same people with you.</p>
<p>Had a school reunion about a year previously. Some of her classmates she didn’t recognise, but some of their names she also didn’t recognise.</p>
<p>Says she loves Balbriggan.</p>
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<p><strong>0.02.41 - 0.04.28</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Moving House as Child</strong></p>
<p>Balbriggan and Skerries were just 4 miles apart, moved to Skerries when a teenager but considers herself to be from Balbriggan. Rivalry between the two towns and Skerries is considered to be nicer.</p>
<p>Balbriggan was more “Wavin pipes”, more industry, Skerries was more for tourists. There was a holiday camp called Red Island that people in Dublin used to go to in Skerries. It was like the holiday camp in Dirty Dancing. [3:27-3:33 Aoife O’Brien who had been interviewed for the Grattan Street Project previously walks into the room at this point.]</p>
<p>Skerries would have considered itself snobby as it has a rugby and sailing club.</p>
<p>Even though she moved to Skerries she still went to school in Ballbriggan which was “not the done thing”. Her brothers went to school in Skerries and are married and live in Skerries.</p>
<p>Bracken Court Hotel in Balbriggan which has been there forever and she remembers going there for her Holy Communion breakfast.</p>
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<p><strong>0.04.28 - 0.07.13</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Holy Communion Day</strong></p>
<p>It was a small group making their holy communion in the convent church rather than the town church. It was special in the sense that there were few children making their communion. Kathleen Gavin was given the wrong time for the communion and turned up an hour late and “the nuns ate her” and the nuns wouldn’t admit that they gave her the wrong time and she had to bring it in the next day to prove it to them. Kathleen still tells that story and is traumatised by it. She had to make her first holy communion by herself.</p>
<p>It was a lovely sunny day and they all stood on the steps of the convent for a photograph. Confirmation was made in town.</p>
<p>Now people will have a meal out after a communion or confirmation but in Jane’s time that was not always the case. But her aunt who lived next door brought her to the Grand Hotel (now the Bracken Court Hotel Balbriggan) for a lunch/brunch after the ceremony. And this was “a huge deal” because it was not a common occurrence at the time.</p>
<p>For confirmation there were a few schools being confirmed at once. And there was a line of boys and a line of girls being confirmed at the same time in the church. All the girls wanted to be kneeling beside John Conway a boy who everyone fancied.</p>
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<p><strong>0.07.13 - 0.10.15</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Games when growing up</strong></p>
<p>She wasn’t big into sport. Lived in a big old haunted house which her grandmother left to her mother. It was near the sea. As children they were allowed onto the rocks by themselves.</p>
<p>She played basketball in school but was not very good at it. Didn’t like that kind of confrontation.</p>
<p>Played by the sea, it wasn’t a beach but rocks. Picnics and playing. Her dad built a ship in the garden, with a deck and sails. She was a big fan of Enid Blyton books as a child, especially the Secret Seven and the ‘Famous Five’ books. Her dad build them a Secret Seven type hut in the garden. As children they “went on mysteries”. They followed one man in imitation of the Enid Blyton books and decided that he was a smuggler. And they followed him up to a Martello Tower where he happened to be going to urinate.</p>
<p>They had more freedom then, allowed to leave in the morning and return in the evening. That was the norm and there wasn’t the supervision that is present today.</p>
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<p><strong>0.10.15 - 0.16.01</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Old Family House</strong></p>
<p>Fancourt: big Georgian house. She hated leaving the house as a child. It was very expensive to keep the house and there were also rates to pay. In addition there were fees to pay for the convent school and there was five children going to school.</p>
<p>So they moved to a smaller house in Skerries.</p>
<p>Fancourt: Three storey, basement and land attached to it but there was more but it was sold to try to keep the house. Discusses the house and its jointly owned green area with the neighbouring houses.</p>
<p>Haunted house: where priests were staying which was her sister’s bedroom- she saw a ghost of a monk. Other stories of ghosts including knocking on doors and foxhunters.</p>
<p>Regrets the old furniture was sold, including servants bells. Jane is interested in auctions.</p>
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<p><strong>0.16.01- 0.17.08</strong></p>
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<p><strong>House in Skerries</strong></p>
<p>Small, terrace house. Skerries nice place to live by sea. Brother lived in Brambles estate and bought new house on the skerries terrace.</p>
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<p><strong>0.17.08 - 0.23.13</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Secondary School</strong></p>
<p>Loved school. Regrets being too good and not being bold.</p>
<p>Wore green uniform. No street lights and was too far from town to meet friends after school at Loreto Convent. Loved the nuns though they were tough. Grateful to her parents for her education.</p>
<p>Loved her friends, the school and its old building. Felt safe. Describes herself as average student not into sports.</p>
<p>Few jobs for women when they finished school.</p>
<p>English was her favourite subject. Would love to be librarian. Prefers physical books to E-books/Kindle.</p>
<p>Pressure on students today at exam time. Criticises the Leaving Certificate points system where students opt for high points courses rather than one they are interested in.</p>
<p>Importance of working at something you like: “Hard work won’t kill you but work you hate will”</p>
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<p><strong>0.23.13- 0.26.36</strong></p>
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<p><strong><span>Nursing Training & Hunger Strike Incident</span></strong></p>
<p><span>Jane’s mother had been a nurse. When she finished school there was a shortage of nurses. The applied directly to hospitals for nursing. But hospitals wanted trained staff rather than students.</span></p>
<p><span>Trained in Jervis Street Hospital where the shopping centre is in Dublin now was a general hospital.</span></p>
<p><span>Saying about nurses and Dublin hospitals: “Vincent’s snobs, Mater ladies and Jervis Nurses”</span></p>
<p><span>Recalls riots due to Hunger Strikes. A man pulled a gun on her on O’Connell Street. Night duty on ward on her own, 20-25 beds. 24 rioters and 1 Garda were in the same ward. </span></p>
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<p><strong>0.26.36 - 0.31.48</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Wanting to be a Nurse & Early Nursing Experience</strong></p>
<p>Played hospital as a child. Always wanted to work in nursing. Has enjoyed much of it. Would not advise anyone to do nursing.</p>
<p>Recalls seeing a confused naked man on her first day.</p>
<p>Worried crying about giving the wrong medication to patient.</p>
<p>Nurse students were also staff.</p>
<p>Loved Irish nurses in America when she was their because their training was very practical.</p>
<p>Enjoyed her time in St Mary’s Hospital New Jersey USA.</p>
<p>Film “FX Murder by Illusion” features the hospital she worked in.</p>
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<p><strong>0.31.48 - 0.34.50</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Hospital in USA and Differences in Immigrants’ Intention </strong></p>
<p>AIDS was a big issue in the hospital in USA</p>
<p>Observes that most immigrant groups in USA wanted to stay there but Irish people wanted to return to Ireland.</p>
<p>Impact of Irish on the world St Patrick’s Day Parade. Thinks Irish people are patriotic abroad and keen to return home.</p>
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<p><strong>0.34.50 - 0.37.43</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Discipline in Hospital</strong></p>
<p>Difficult senior nurses. The sense of hierarchy. Demeaning and mocking way junior nurses were spoken to was accepted. Jane was referred to as an “anencephalic”, a baby born without part of its head which will soon die.</p>
<p>When you knelt down your uniform had to touch the ground. Ward sister demanded to see under Jane’s uniform to see she was wearing a slip under her uniform.</p>
<p>Nurses were allowed to wear a cardigan at night but had to take it off in the morning.</p>
<p>A nurse went to Saudi Arabia where she was murdered.</p>
<p>Thinks they were strict about stupid things. Discipline was important. No one thought to question it.</p>
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<p><strong>0.37.43 - 0.40.58</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Story of nurses boycotting nursing event</strong></p>
<p>Did midwifery in Rotunda. The Scottish matron didn’t hire any of the students but hired Scottish nurses.</p>
<p>Jane & fellow midwifery students boycotted the graduation event in protest at this. Matron spoke to them individually. A brave nurse refused to answer any questions unless her union representative. Jane’s class is the only one not to have a group photo because of the boycott.</p>
<p>People didn’t defy superiors at the time.</p>
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<p><strong>0.40.58 - 0.42.32</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Effect of the Strict Discipline</strong></p>
<p>Some staff were panicky and nervous about making a mistake. May have incentivised people to cover up mistakes to avoid the repercussions instead of working something out.</p>
<p>Matron could make personal remarks about nurses without repercussions: telling a nurse to fix her crooked teeth.</p>
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<p><strong>0.42.32 - 0.44.22</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Religion in Hospitals</strong></p>
<p>No MRSA in those days. Nuns ran a very clean and efficient hospital. Jervis was a Catholic hospital. Rotunda was a Protestant hospital, most of the staff were Catholic and they went to mass, then the Protestants went to service and were given tea and biscuits.</p>
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<p><strong>0.44.22 - 0.50.00</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Working as a Nurse in USA: differences to Irish system</strong></p>
<p>Had to sit an exam before working as a nurse in USA.</p>
<p>VISA dependant on passing the exam. Irish nurses were not used to multiple choice exams at the time. They were also required to sit an English language examination to work as a nurse in the USA.</p>
<p>Rented houses were arranged for the nurses. Jane had a car and dated a man in Washington at the time. An exciting time.</p>
<p>Maximum was 2 patients to a room in USA vs larger wards in Ireland. In USA their reports were taken on a tape recorder rather than written.</p>
<p>Patient’s doctor would still be their doctor once they went to hospital.</p>
<p>DRG Diagnostic Related Grouping which was related to how many days insurance would be paid per patient per illness.</p>
<p>Good life and money in USA which allowed Jane to do the Public Health course in UCD.</p>
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<p><strong>0.50.00 - 0.56.20</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Public Health Nursing</strong></p>
<p>Desire to come home.</p>
<p>Discusses her relationship with a reporter/journalist in USA which ended when she returned to Ireland.</p>
<p>Began work in Ballyfermot - highlight in public health career.</p>
<p>Started a needle exchange for drug addiction. Dynamic and progressive area. Rough area but felt you were making a difference. Didn’t feel the same way when she moved to Cork.</p>
<p>Public Health vs Hospital:</p>
<p>In hospital you pass the patient to the next shift, but in Public Health you are responsible for all of your cases.</p>
<p>Once her camera was stolen from her car when visiting a patient.</p>
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<p><strong>0.56.20 - 1.00.49</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Coming to Cork</strong></p>
<p>Came to Cork because husband was working there.</p>
<p>Had to do an Irish oral exam to get the Public Health job in Cork.</p>
<p>November 1992 got job in Grattan Street Health Centre. Got married January 1993.</p>
<p>Staff had a lunch and cake in before her wedding, and a present even though she was only there for a month.</p>
<p>Admires architecture of Queens University Belfast, where she could have gone to work in the 1980s.</p>
<p>Remarks on the small decisions than influence one’s life and career.</p>
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<p><strong>1.00.49 - 1.06.59</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Impressions of Grattan Street Health Centre Work as Public Health Nurse</strong></p>
<p>Parking problems in Grattan Street.</p>
<p>Met director in base Abbey Court House. “The one thing you learn in Grattan Street is how to park!” There was more space before the school [Educate Together]</p>
<p>Grattan Street was a welcoming place.</p>
<p>Public Health Nurse in Blackpool flats now demolished.</p>
<p>There was a brothel in one. Fantastic people.</p>
<p>Once left handbag behind in Blackpool.</p>
<p>Mixed work in Ballyfermot but all child welfare in Cork- visiting houses.</p>
<p>Discusses one case of child with broken leg where mother hadn’t done anything about it. So a social worker and Garda were needed to get the child to hospital. Jane had to go to court. The child was returned to the mother. Jane then had to still work with that mother subsequently.</p>
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<p><strong>1.06.59 - 1.09.02</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Impression of Danger in Some Areas</strong></p>
<p>Worked with St Vincent de Paul in Knocknaheeny. Never felt threatened.</p>
<p>Privileged to get into flats that people would let no one else into.</p>
<p>If she saw suspected stolen goods she and they knew that she was not interested in anything other than child welfare.</p>
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<p><strong>1.09.02 - 1.11.35</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Story of very Difficult Patient</strong></p>
<p>Hospitals can discharge patients but as PHN the patient can live in your area for decades.</p>
<p>Nurses shared a rota to look after this man because the heavy workload.</p>
<p>Digression to story about writing wrong date in calligraphy on a colleague’s wedding album.</p>
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<p><strong>1.11.35 - 1.15.30</strong></p>
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<p><strong>What makes a Good Public Health Nurse</strong></p>
<p>Get on with people. Make people relaxed. People need to trust you. Have to be honest. Not trying to be someone’s friend.</p>
<p>Assessment of patient is important.</p>
<p>Patients can become dependent on a particular PHN.</p>
<p>Privilege to enter other people’s homes, especially when they won’t let other people into their homes eg social workers or Gardaí</p>
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<p><strong>1.15.30 - 1.19.30</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Training and Meaning from Job</strong></p>
<p>Training didn’t prepare her for PHN. Compares it to jumping off a chair to train for parachute jump.</p>
<p>End of career now. Disappointed at choices she made. She is now doing more management and less hands-on.</p>
<p>Recalls times she felt she made a difference: making a joke with a terminal patient, assisting a family who had brought their father home to die to care for him when they were overwhelmed.</p>
<p>Doesn’t feel like she is making a difference any more.</p>
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<p><strong>1.19.30 - 1.21.20</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Regrets the Management side of the Job</strong></p>
<p>As she was promoted she was had to do more management which she regrets.</p>
<p>Is considering retiring or changing career.</p>
<p>Would love to be a librarian or work with antiques or books. Discounts it as silly at this stage of her life.</p>
<p>Is unhappy with her current work. Her staff say she makes a difference but she is not sure. She took a career break and her staff missed her.</p>
<p>Feels too far away from where she started.</p>
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<p><strong>1.21.20 - 1.26.40</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Promotion to Vaccine and Management Role</strong></p>
<p>1999 nursing strike.</p>
<p>Jane was on strike committee. Picketed Abbey Court House on Sulllivan’s Quay. Meeting with management to decide whether the strikers could use the toilets and canteen.</p>
<p>Outcome of the strike was that new job for a specialist in immunisation, vaccine. Jane was stabbed by a syringe by accident one day.</p>
<p>Overnight Jane became Assistant Director, and colleagues at same grade insisted on calling her Senior Public Health Nurse which was the previous title.</p>
<p>Recalls an Assistant Director who was victimised in a more severe way to Jane which went to mediation.</p>
<p>It went away but it was nasty at the time Jane says.</p>
<p>Jane was never invited to the Assistant Director Christmas lunch for years</p>
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<p><strong>1.26.40 - 1.29.26</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Change from Clinical to Managerial Role</strong></p>
<p>Her role was a clinical role with no staff, vaccines following up on defaulters. Croke Park and Haddington Road agreements changed her role.</p>
<p>Swine Flu vaccinating 1000 people a day in Neptune Stadium.</p>
<p>School public health nurses were backbone of system. And the management system was at cross purposes. These nurses eventually came under her remit. Realised that she didn’t like management- doesn’t like taking responsibility for the mistake of others.</p>
<p>Describes her management style as “Do it, do it, do it!” and she shouldn’t have to give a reason.</p>
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<p><strong>1.29.26 - 1.33.20</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Building in Grattan Street compared to Gurranabraher</strong></p>
<p>Loves the building. Old Quaker Meeting House.</p>
<p>Graffiti of penis and scrotum that her elderly aunt was trying to figure out.</p>
<p>Would have preferred to stay in Grattan Street.</p>
<p>Recalls the old ventilation holes where pigeon droppings would land on your desk.</p>
<p>Location of Grattan Street is good for the public and services.</p>
<p>Grattan Street building requires work to maintain it.</p>
<p>Unsure if it’s a positive move for services to Gurranabraher.</p>
<p>Useful to be near Edel House [women’s shelter] and the Share Houses.</p>
<p>She has 7 staff but the new office is for 4 people which she thinks is insulting. Doesn’t believe hot desking works.</p>
<p>They are on a “room allocation review list”</p>
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<p><strong>1.33.20 - 1.35.09</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Benefits of Grattan Street Health Centre</strong></p>
<p>Close to town- shops and the bank.</p>
<p>Part of the community in Grattan Street. Close to Mercy Hospital. Building has a good feel. Felt at home there. Lots of history.</p>
<p>The only thing people don’t miss in Grattan Street is the parking. Everyone went to the Grattan Street Christmas party.</p>
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<p><strong>1.35.09 - 1.40.06</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Relationship with community in Grattan Street</strong></p>
<p>Animosity is with neighbours regarding parking.</p>
<p>Story about getting kitchen done by a man from Grattan Street and being concerned about parking.</p>
<p>School next door- issue with parking- children don’t live in the area. Tricky relationship with the school.</p>
<p>Story of previous principal of the school trying to get clampers to clamp all the cars belonging Grattan Street staff.</p>
<p>Other stories about the difficulties caused by parking and the uneasy relationship with the school.</p>
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<p><strong>1.40.06 - 1.40.55</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Other Stories</strong></p>
<p>Mentions that there are stories about affairs in Grattan Street but doesn’t want to tell them.</p>
<p>Says Grattan Street was a good place to work.</p>
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<p><strong>1.40.55 - 1.44.55</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Vaccine Storage Fridges Temperature Control</strong></p>
<p>Vaccines have to be kept in fridges between 2 degrees and 8 degrees. The Cold Chain- ensures that the vaccines are at the right temperature including when transported.</p>
<p>Vaccines have to be monitored and recorded twice a day.</p>
<p>Some people think Jane is over the top with her care of vaccines. She doesn’t think so. Vaccines are very expensive and important when going to school.</p>
<p>Found it hard being responsible for the vaccines even when not at work. Story that she called about the vaccines from a Gondola in Venice is not true!</p>
<p>Hundreds and thousands of euro worth of vaccines at a time when</p>
<p>Order through United Drug. She sees the price every time that she orders which is stressful to see the cost.</p>
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<p><strong>1.44.55 - 1.44.55</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Difficulties Moving Vaccines to Gurranbraher</strong></p>
<p>Dreaded moving the vaccine in Grattan Street because there’s no lift.</p>
<p>Complications of moving vaccine fridges and the required procedure.</p>
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<p><strong>1.44.55 - 1.44.55</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Funny story about Monitoring Electricity for Vaccine Fridges during Storm</strong></p>
<p>Electricity was to be cut off due to replacing telegraph poles.</p>
<p>Needed generator to keep electricity on for the vaccine fridges.</p>
<p>Jane had asked many times for a back-up generator but never received one.</p>
<p>Was asked by superior to protect the vaccine fridges from a storm, which had never been asked before.</p>
<p>Generator set up in Grattan Street yard. Jane inquired how the back-up would be physically changed if the power goes out? The solution was that the toilet light was to be left on and the electricity workers would see driving past if the power failed.</p>
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<p><strong>1.49.55 - 1.51.51</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Moving Vaccines during Floods</strong></p>
<p>Older man told Jane that Grattan Street is in a depression and so there are never any power cuts.</p>
<p>One problem during big floods in Grattan Street when wall near Mercy broke. Jane was doing vaccines for Swine Flu in Neptune at the time.</p>
<p>With steps up to Grattan Street Health Centre and vaccines on top floor Jane thought they were safe.</p>
<p>She was informed an amphibious craft was to come to move the vaccines. A Ford Fiesta arrived. They were put in St. Finbarr’s Hospital for the night.</p>
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<p><strong>1.51.51 - 1.54.25</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Future of Vaccines</strong></p>
<p>Takes the vaccine care very seriously so that it’s both safe and effective.</p>
<p>In third world vaccine storage is more complicated.</p>
<p>Tyndall Institute is developing a patch that will deliver vaccines rather than needles.</p>
<p>Makes comparison to Star Trek.</p>
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<p><strong>1.54.25 - 2.01.07</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Vaccine Take Up and vaccination policies</strong></p>
<p>Is very pro-vaccine</p>
<p>Mentions problem with social media spreading misinformation about vaccines. And the damage that can cause.</p>
<p>Doesn’t argue with vaccines with friends and family.</p>
<p>Following up with child who had only received some of the required vaccine, the mother brought the child to an area with a measles epidemic.</p>
<p>Thinks more education is needed and PHNs need to be very positive about vaccines.</p>
<p>Thinks the HPV vaccine is a no-brainer.</p>
<p>Need to dispel vaccine myths.</p>
<p>Approximately 1500 euro to vaccinate a child fully. Wonders whether the fact the vaccination schemes are free of charge makes some people take it for granted and not value it.</p>
<p>Some countries have a no vaccination no school policy. Minister for Health at the time Simon Harris had been discussing a similar policy in Ireland.</p>
<p>In some countries there are penalties for not getting vaccinations eg withdrawal of Child Benefit.</p>
<p>In Ireland the decision is left to the individual.</p>
<p>Some parents think that because all other children are vaccinated that their child will be safe.</p>
<p>Story of an unvaccinated child whose mother with only let the child play with vaccinated children!</p>
<p>“Every vaccine is a little victory”</p>
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<p><strong>2.01.07 - 2.01.54</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Opportunity for Interviewee to say anything not yet mentioned</strong></p>
<p>Describes the interview as better than a counselling session.</p>
<p>Reiterates that she has gone far away from where she started out in her career and it may be time to step back.</p>
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<p><strong>2.01.54 - 2.05.57</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Hopes for Future of Grattan Street</strong></p>
<p>Doesn’t believe Grattan Street can be sold.</p>
<p>There was lots of pressure on them to move, which Jane felt was unnecessary.</p>
<p>Jane’s preference was to move in the summer when the schools are closed because there would be no need to do vaccinations, but they were forced to move during term time.</p>
<p>Is not sure what services are remaining in Grattan Street.</p>
<p>Mentions a piece of furniture that she would love to have from Grattan Street.</p>
<p>Hopes the future of Grattan Street will benefit the community.</p>
<p>Discussion about Grattan Street being opened for heritage week or an open day but it never happened.</p>
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<p><strong>2.05.57 - 2.06.10</strong></p>
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<p>Outro.</p>
<p>Interview Ends.</p>
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Jane Ward: Grattan Street, Healthcare, Working Life
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CFP_SR00717_Ward_2019;
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<strong>Other Interviews in this Collection </strong><br /><br /><a href="https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/240" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CFP_SR00696_O'Regan_2019</a>; <br /><a href="https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/242" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CFP_SR00704_Collins_2019</a>; <br /><a href="https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/243" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CFP_SR00706_Higgisson_2019</a>; <br /><a href="https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/244" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CFP_SR00712_O'Brien_2019</a>; <br /><a href="https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/245" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CFP_SR00713_Kearney_2019</a>; <br /><a href="https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/246" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CFP_SR00714_Cunning_2019</a>;<br /><a href="https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/248" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CFP_SR00727_OhUigin_2019</a>; <br /><a href="https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/249" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CFP_SR00728_Scanlan_2019</a>; <br /><a href="https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/250" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CFP_SR00729_Mulcahy_2019</a>; <br /><a href="https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/251" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CFP_SR00732_Cassidy_2019</a>; <br /><a href="https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/252" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CFP_SR00760_Morrissy_2019</a>; <br /><a href="https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/253" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> CFP_SR00762_OConnell_2019</a>;
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English
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Cork Folklore Project Audio Archive
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4 June 2019
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<p><span>Jane grew up in Balbriggan and Skerries County Dublin. Describes her love of the Georgian house her family lived in and her love of old buildings and antiques before they moved to a smaller home.</span></p>
<p><span>Recalls her first holy communion where one girl arrived late and had to experience the ceremony on her own.</span></p>
<p><span>Speaks of some childhood games and playing and picnicking by the sea.</span></p>
<p><span>Enjoyed school at Loreto Convent Balbriggan even though the nuns were strict. English was her favourite subject.</span></p>
<p><span>Talks about her desire to become a nurse and her experiences in Dublin hospitals. Describes the strict discipline and hierarchy in hospitals including the way superiors exercised power over how nurses were required to dress and commented on their physical appearance with impunity. Jane outlines the negative impacts of this culture including fear of making a mistake and the incentive to cover up of mistakes. Outlines a rare challenge to authority when nurses boycotted a graduation ceremony. Mentions the role of religion in hospitals.</span></p>
<p><span>Outlines her time spend nursing in USA, a romantic relationship and her emigrant experience there before returning to Ireland to pursue Public Health Nursing (PHN), which she prefers as it feels she is making a difference.</span></p>
<p><span>Discusses moving to Cork and her early positive impressions of Grattan Street Medical Centre and its staff. Speaks about the Grattan Street building itself, including its sense of history, graffiti on its outside walls, and its convenient location in the city centre and proximity to other services. Describes the problems with car parking and the resulting tensions with neighbours. </span></p>
<p><span>Jane speaks of her PHN work in Blackpool and a court case involving a child and social worker. Outlines the characteristic of a good PHN, and how much of the role is learned through experience. Regrets the turn her career has taken towards management and away from dealing with patients.</span></p>
<p><span>Discusses the 1999 nursing strike which lead to a new role for an immunisation specialist which she was hired for. Describes how colleagues insisted on referring to her by her previous title, refusing to acknowledge her promotion and equal status. Describes her role including overseeing Swine Flu vaccinations.</span></p>
<p><span>Explains the vaccine cold storage system, the sense of responsibility for ordering them and overseeing them. Tells stories of when vaccines were relocated during a flood to protect them, and when the electricity was monitored during a storm in case the power was cut to the vaccine fridges. Mentions vaccine policies, myths and technological developments. </span></p>
<p><span>Outlines her preferred time to move services from Grattan Street to St Mary’s Primary Healthcare Centre Gurranabraher. </span></p>
Abbey Court House
America
Antique
Antiques
Apartments
Balbriggan
Ballyfermot
Belfast
Blackpool
Books
Boycott
Broken Leg
Buildings
Built Heritage
Car Park
Car Parking
Child
Childhood Games
Childhoood
Children
Children’s Health
Christmas Party
Co Dublin
Community
Confirmation
Cork
County Dublin
Court
Croke Park Agreement
Discipline
Drogheda
Dublin
Edel House
Emigrant
Emigrant Experience
Emigrants
Emigration
Enid Blyton
Family
Flats
Games
Garda
Georgian
ghost
Ghosts
Graffiti
Grattan Street
Grattan Street Health Centre
Gurranabraher
Haddington Road Agreement
Haunted house
Health
Hierarchy
Holy Communion
Holy Communion Breakfast
Home
Hospital
House
Housing
Hunger Strikes
Hygiene
Industry
Injection
Irish Language
Jervis Street Hospital
Knocknaheeny
Management
Martello Tower
Matron
Medical
Medicine
Medicines
Mercy Hospital
Midwife
Midwifery
MRSA
Needle
Needle Exchange
Neptune Stadium
Nun
Nuns
Nurse
Nursing
Nursing Training
Parking
PHN
Playing
Public Health
Public Health Nurse
Public Health Nursing
Quaker Meeting House
Quakers
Queens University Belfast
Reading
Regret
Regrets
Religion
Religion in Hospitals
Rent
Renting
Rotunda
Sea
Seaside
Shops
Siblings
Skerries
Social Work
St. Finbarr’s Hospital
St. Vincent de Paul
Storm
Swine Flu
Teenager
The Cold Chain
Trade Union
Trade Unions
Trades Union
Union
Unions
USA
Vaccination
vaccine
Vaccine Fridge
Vaccine Myths
Vaccine Storage
Vaccines